The Old Cataracts Hotel - sleeping with presidents

Bliss. The air was a warm (as it's dry) 23 degrees, the pool a balmy 27 degrees, and the feluccas sailed up the Nile behind you. The residence of the last Egyptian King and now a hotel fit for a king, this is where Agatha Christie was based when she wrote 'Death on the Nile' and it's where both the Egyptian president, Mohammed Hosni Mubarak and the French President, Sarkozy, were both staying while we there.

Egypt, land of the Pharoahs

December 30th 2007
This blog should more accurately be called ‘a trial in sleep deprivation’ More on that soon… Well you may or may not know that Egypt was kind of thrust upon us - or at least chosen without our usual thorough planning. At about the same time as we reached the conclusion that we wanted to go somewhere hot for Christmas - the Arctic Circle in Norway and the freezing wet & windy Edinburgh for H ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more

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